How Haiti became the ‘poster child’ for reparations, with Harold Isaac

HAROLD: My name is Harold Isaac and I’m an independent journalist here in Haiti. 00:49 It’s been a rough week. It’s been very, very bad. Welcome to the World Unspun. I’m your host Maxine Betteridge-Moes.  I spoke to Harold on November 14th. Just three days earlier, Haiti’s international airport was temporarily shut down after gangs opened fire at a plane landing in Port-Au-Prince.  NEWS CLIP HAROLD: Never, ever, ever have we been in a situation where international planes have been struck by, you know, rifle bullets. You know it’s, it’s, it’s unimaginable that such a thing would have happened. It should have never happened. The latest violence came as the new prime minister, businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé was sworn in after the interim prime minister was fired. The US has since banned civilian flights into Haiti for at least 30 days. Harold won’t see his kids, who were supposed to come visit him for the holidays.  HAROLD: I was looking forward to seeing my kids that were supposed to be coming from Canada, and that’s another whole long story, but they hadn’t been here in the past two years, and they were supposed to come for Christmas, and this is...